Melissa Miller

Women’s Director for Student Ministries & Institute Discipleship

Meet Melissa

My favorite things in life are cooking and entertaing friends and family, all
things arty: museums, symphony, opera, laughing and hangin’ with my team, and
teaching women about most anything from God’s Truth. In addition, I have
the world’s smartest golden retriever named Mr. Bingley (after the infamous Mr.
Bingley from Pride and Prejudice of
course) who I allow to rule a better part of my life. I am a ridiculous
Dallas Cowboys fan dating back to the glory days of the 70’s, Roger Staubach
and Tom Landry…oh the trauma that pursuit has brought me through the
years. Because my father was Iranian, I was named after an Iranian
Princess named Princess Soraya and so, will answer to princess on occasion.

I became a believer when I was eight years old, not because of a Sunday
school teacher, or anyone else I can point to. I just remember walking up
to my pastor and telling him I needed to have Jesus in my heart “RIGHT NOW,”
and would he please tell me how to do that? The next fourteen years were not
marked by walking with Jesus however, as I was not taught what it meant to have
a relationship with Him.

When I was twenty-two years old, I made a radical decision to give up my
wild ways and “give God a shot.” That was the beginning of a
passionate pursuit of being a part of what God is doing in the lives of His
people. Over the next ten years, I was discipled by some incredibly godly
women at my church in Denton, Texas who instilled in me a vision of
multiplication through discipling other women to disciple other women and so on.

I have never really recovered from the idea that
God wanted me to be with Him, that He is redeeming my past mistakes, and most
of all that He would give me the privilege of helping others, specifically
women (of all ages) experience that same redemption.